Corinne Gau-Tchekov and Michel Gau voyage aboard their Alliage 49 aluminum monohull, Ganesh. They left France in 2011 after Michel’s retirement and have been sailing around the world on a six-month-at-sea/six-month-on-land rhythm, leaving Ganesh in various boatyards along the way. Having crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, then cruised for six years in Southeast Asia, they are currently in Malaysia, almost ready to cross the Indian Ocean.
Corinne and Michel have been married for 37 years, and they started sailing in 1987, just after the birth of their first daughter, Marina. In 1990, they took a sabbatical year on their first Ganesh, a 39-foot Beneteau, which enabled them to discover the Mediterranean Sea, cross the Atlantic Ocean for the first time and then cruise in the West Indies. Their second daughter, Alizée (French for “tradewind”), came into the world in 1991. In 1995, the whole family started a seven-year sabbatical circumnavigation on a second Ganesh, a Passoa 47 aluminum centerboard boat from a renowned Garcia boatyard. They closed the big loop in 2002, sold the boat, bought a house in the South of France and went back to work. READ MORE>>
